"UN Habitat Youth Fund" gives grant to Child Foundation

The UN Habitat Youth Fund grant for $25,000 will fund a technology schoolprogram for 650 youth ages 19-25 in the poor regions of Mazar-e-sharif,Afghanistan. Students participating in this program will learn basic computerskills and how to use internet resources. These skills will greatly increasetheir opportunity for future success. A small office building has been purchasedin Mazar-e-sharif which will provide space for the classes, as well as the ChildFoundation office in Afghanistan.  

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
 

About Child Foundation

Our Mission: Tohelp children in need who have been identified as high achievers remain inschool.

Our Philosophy: Webelieve that education can move a child beyond the stigma of poverty, and givethat child the tools to reach his or her true and full potential.

Our Purpose: Since our inception in 1994, Child Foundation has provided basicnecessities to children living in poverty or hardship by enhancing the qualityof the life for these children as well as their respective families. Byproviding access to education, Child Foundation hopes to increase the number ofstudents graduating from school, and in certain countries, early matrimony.

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